Food

The sixth eight weeks of shelter-in-place stress baking with Jill 3 years ago
At the 48 week mark, you can already look back at what you were posting this day last year and realize that Coronavirus anxiety was already a thing. The 52 week mark, coming soon, is going to be A Thing, except that I've already been feeling all of the milestones a few months early because of some…

The fifth eight weeks of shelter-in-place stress baking with Jill 3 years ago
Jill was just getting over being reminded of how long this has gone on and now they are going to be reminded that it's been 40 weeks. Happy Hollidays! Not included was making two two-person-feasts for my spouse's religious observances, which included that I can now make one of the really hard…

The fourth eight weeks of shelter-in-place stress baking with Jill 3 years ago
This update is really late. Like, I've been sitting on the set since October, but a lot of stuff came up. We had the election, which has been going on for, at last count, two years. And my dishwasher broke. And there were holidays. And that's just the things that caused me to not get around to…

The third eight weeks of shelter-in-place stress baking with Jill 4 years ago
This is the hot time of the year where I live, so I had to make some adjustments for the inevitable heat waves and otherwise hot weather. But I still have recipes to try! Week Seventeen: Hokkaido Milk Bread and Butterflake Herb Laof My wife is a savory girl, not a sweets girl and I'd felt bad that…

The second eight weeks of shelter-in-place stress baking with Jill 4 years ago
Days and weeks blur together in shelter-in-place, I guess. Still, baking can continue. Week Nine: Babka, Pizza, Hilton Garden cookies, and Brioche My parents asked "Well, when are you going to do Babka?" So I guess I had to do Babka. Recipe Recipe Recipe Babka is something that's really interesting…

The first eight weeks of shelter-in-place stress baking with Jill 4 years ago
I'm already the sort of person who cooks and bakes and I figured that it's a lot easier for me to have the makings for foodstuffs than it is to have bread going bad in a shelter-in-place situation. But apparently everybody decided that they were going to stress-bake through the crisis. Joepastry…

A bit about my recent baking obsession... or... ugh, baking cookbooks 7 years ago
A coincidence of things has enabled a bit more baking than usual. First, I'm riding a few more miles to work, so suddenly I'm able to eat a bit more carbohydrates. Second, I'm not working at a place with catered lunch. Which pretty much puts me back into the same sort of state of annoyance I was…

Southern-Indian Corn in a Cream Sauce 7 years ago
My wife loves corn. She was getting canned creamed corn from the store, but they stopped carrying it and thus asked me to figure out how to make it...

Honey Cornbread 12 years ago
I love cornbread. Absolutely love it. My mother, back in the day, would make cornbread and then my brother and I would take turns devouring it.

Why can't I find veggie bouillon cubes? 13 years ago
Bouillon cubes are a quick cheap shortcut. Sure, if you want the most awesome possible taste in your soup, you'll make your own broth. And if you want something that's still awfully awesome, you'll use one of the better aseptic packaged or canned broths or stocks. (Yes, there's a difference between…

Rainbow carrots 14 years ago
I joined a CSA with a super-convenient delivery location. The idea behind CSA groups is that I buy a percentage of the output of one or more farms and thus receive a bunch of locally-grown in-season organic produce...

Obscene creations in the kitchen: Pancake Mix 14 years ago
I used to spend money on pancake mix. In fact, because of my now-cured issues with blood sugar, I'd search out the foofy pancake mix that didn't have any sugar in it (because the pure maple syrup never bugged my blood sugar but the sugar might be). I understand that you can even get pancake mix in…

Herbed Roast Stuffed Chicken 15 years ago
It's several recipes in one, but don't let it overwhelm you too much. This should make for several meals. This is on purpose. It's intended to give you almost a week's worth of leftovers for two people. You can eat the chicken, veggies, stuffing, and gravy one day. Next day, you can reheat the…

The Gentle Art of Brining 15 years ago
My notes on brining meat.

Some numbers on food 15 years ago
I joined a CSA with a super-convenient delivery location. The idea behind CSA groups is that I buy a percentage of the output of one or more farms and thus receive a bunch of locally-grown in-season organic produce...

Cooking notes and changed recipes 15 years ago
My goals behind cooking are often different from everybody else's. I hate mixes. See, the problem with a mix is that you are beholden to whoever is making it to continue to make it for the rest of eternity. Often times, desirable properties of cooking are abandoned in favor of something that can be…